Who’s afraid of HTML 5? Not Lachlan Hunt! As both a front-end web developer and a contributor to HTML 5, he tells us what we can expect from the emerging markup specification, whose goals include more flexibility and greater interoperability.

One of the main questions I have seen popping up all over the place in relation to HTML5, in forums, StackOverflow, and Twitter, is “which do I use: article or section?” In fact quite often the answer is “neither, use a div” but these …